Daily Archives: March 17, 2010

Deep in an Uptown residential neighborhood, regulars at Gautreau’s have come to expect a certain style of contemporary cooking — and that it will be very good. The abbreviated menu has one of just about everything, whipped up with only ...

Lakeview resident Joe Giarrusso says he feels as though he’s living in a development zone rather than a recovery zone. Last year, Giarrusso, his wife, Cassie, and their two children moved from Uptown to a new home in Lakeview after ...

Six years after Superdome officials all but declared the search for a corporate sponsor dead, the New Orleans Saints’ Super Bowl victory has breathed new life into the quest for a naming rights deal. “I think it definitely changes the ...

Horn blasts from cargo ships and tugboats navigating the Mississippi River interrupted the conversation taking place the afternoon of March 15 on the balcony of the new Plimsoll Club. Looking out from the Westin Hotel toward the crescent yaw were ...

Roger Villere was 11 years old when he started growing a garden with his grandmother, and he was a teenager when he passed the state certification test to be a licensed floral designer. So Villere, the state’s Republican Party chairman ...

Smart phones are in the midst of a record-breaking year, if estimates by International Data Corp. are correct. That’s following a fourth quarter in 2009 in which smart phone shipments grew by 39 percent over the previous year. Manufacturers apparently ...

Today, New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu announced the co-chairs of 14 panels to assist the transition of his administration as he prepares to take office May 3. I was happy to see that one of the panels deals with customer ...

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and Gov. Bobby Jindal will be releasing books within a week of each other in July. Brees’ book is a memoir and will go on sale July 6. Jindal’s book is reportedly part autobiography, ...

NEW YORK — The stock market continued its steady advance of the past month after the Federal Reserve said it would keep interest rates low to revive the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 30 points in late afternoon ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that easily won congressional approval today in what Democrats hope is just the first of several election-year measures aimed at boosting hiring. ...